On Friday, the Financial Times published a letter from ACT president Morgan Reed on the escalating debate over standards essential patents and the internet of things (IoT) in Europe. The letter is behind the paywall here, but you can read the full text below. Upstream Players in the Internet of [...]
Europe has long been a leader in the development and deployment of both open standards as well as the technologies these standards drive. Everyone agrees that open standards play a critical role in interoperability, innovation, and competition. Open standards enabled me to build an ICT consulting firm in Alicante, Spain [...]
ACT reached out to Capitol Hill today to highlight improvements in the latest version of Rogue Website legislation while outlining the remaining concerns we have with the existing draft scheduled for a vote in the House Judiciary Committee tomorrow. ACT also addressed the Wyden/Issa plan in separate correspondence. The letters: [...]
In early June, the European Commission presented a proposal for a regulation on European Standardisation intending to “accelerate, simplify and modernise standardisation procedures”. In this document, the Commission has singled out ICT as a sector where standards are important, playing a role in stimulating innovation, cutting administrative burdens and encouraging [...]
The European Commission has today adopted the Communication Towards Interoperability for European Public Services. In response, Association for Competitive Technology president offered his support for the measure: “The notion of “open specifications” included in the European Interoperability Framework allows for open source and proprietary software to compete on a level [...]